Tar is using a temp file as it is doing the compression. It needs to store it someplace - one of the three tmp directories most likely /tmp.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Larry Brigman wrote: > > > Running out of space on the /tmp mount point? > > Larry, > > I don't understand. The source partition is ~/ and the destination > partition is /mnt/hd. Is /tmp used in the transfer? If so, then running out > of space there is possible. > > Thanks, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
